Wine with Leslie: Gold Star selections from your local wine merchants

"The National Off-Licence Association (NOffLA) represents the independent wine retailers around the country and their annual Gold Star Awards have just been announced."

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This week I want to write in praise of the local. 

The supermarkets have made it too easy for us, and given our busy lives it is just too convenient to fill up the trolley in one supermarket visit. But if we do this we are missing out on so much, and our lives are poorer.